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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1916
Page
3
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A terse report notes wage trends affecting native industry workers in Holland. It highlights growing costs and changing labor conditions, with emphasis on local employers and worker livelihoods amid shifting policy and market pressures.
A New York editor cites the ballot box as a measure of civilization arguing for women’s rights and voting participation while contrasting male and female civic roles. He notes Illinois towns and statewide dry votes, with statistics showing many women voting in local option elections and men voting in separate boxes.
At the Republican state convention in Wheeling Antoinette Funk, a nationally known suffrage speaker, was invited to the platform and spoke for about 40 minutes on women’s right to vote. The audience of more than 2,600 gave a warm, sustained reception, though some noted a cool moment from the crowd. The Register’s account recalls how Funk urged West Virginia to back the 19th Amendment, noting 4,000,000 Western women would vote in November and urging Republicans to meet the Western vote. Rounds of applause followed as Wellman thanked her for energizing the crowd. no woman had previously received such notable ovation in West Virginia.
A Missouri neighbor recalls early skepticism about women's suffrage in Albany, noting how a neighbor watched a meal prepared and eaten, then doubted the vote would change society or behavior, illustrating stubborn opposition despite recent voting rights.
Morace J. Brows states that Jotick, I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anyone other than myself after this date.
Mecomia Murphy, a lumberman from Wat Virginia area, extols Tanlac's benefits after medical trials. He claims improved nerves, digestion, and energy, recounting personal relief and urging others to try the treatment despite some skeptical notes.
A leading West Virginia newspaper carries a letter to the editor from The Remonstrance group and urges support for universal suffrage. It argues women’s education and civic involvement unfolded as women gained the right to sit at the table, attend church, and work in public life.
A tangled OCR fragment lists multiple insurance and construction firms and agents including Metropolitan Life Insurance, Prudential Life Insurance, Mutual Life, United Brokerage, and Richards Construction Co. It mentions rooms, agents, and individuals such as S. Mason, R. L. Osborn, Lewis M. Sutton, and Piven S. Newman, in a disjointed business directory fragment.
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